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To: Chas. who wrote (73666)4/29/2011 11:36:06 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (2) of 217752
 
We can date back the concept and the reality of concentration camps to the Second Boer War (1899-1902) in South Africa.

The commander of the British troops fighting the Boers, Lord Kitchener, linked his tactics of scorched earth to establishing vast camps for the internment of civilians who had been driven away from their home and uprooted by the destruction of their farms and lands.
The vast detention facilities of concentration camps were made possible by the invention of barbed wire in France in 1865, and by a mass production that began in Illinois, United States, in 1874. Barbed wire made it possible and cheap to restrain cattle on a large scale and to build restrain facilities for whatever purpose. Widely used in the southwest of the United States, barbed wire fences recall in our imagination the raising of livestock in the Wild West. Soon, this treatment was to be applied to human beings. As a matter of fact, barbed wires enabled governments and the military to build large camps without carrying the financial burden of building real prisons. At the end of the 19th century, the British army decided to confine and relocate human populations as if they were cattle.
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